TSA Harassment Isn't Just For Airports Anymore

The TSA isn't just in airports anymore. TSA teams are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around the country. (Including one prom) TSA teams have checked people at the gangplanks of cruise ships, the entrance to Nascar races, and at ferry terminals. In Tennessee in October, the TSA inspected trucks at highway weigh stations throughout the state. Last month in Orlando, Fla., the TSA harrased passengers at a Greyhound bus station. The list goes on and on. But critics say that without a clear threat, the TSA checkpoints are merely political theater. Privacy advocates worry that the agency is stretching legal limits on the government's right to search U.S. citizens without probable cause — and with no proof that the scattershot checkpoints help prevent attacks. 
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